Arabic vocabulary
شَعَرٌdistress
How to say “distress” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فوقعوا في حومة غفلة وفي ضيق شعر،
So they fell into the midst of heedlessness and into the narrowness of distress,
شَعَرٍ — distress. The owner half of the possessive pair, in the 'of' ending after 'narrowness of'. Its indefinite form keeps it general, 'of distress', and its position locks the two into a single possessive phrase.
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